COUNTRY AS AN ELEMENT OF SELF-IDENTIFICATION IN THE LITERARY WORKS OF VLADIMIR MINAC

The article deals with a problem of self-identification in the literary works of Vladimir Minac. It comes out at two concepts of self-identification - an individual experience and a collective, confessional or national concept while the ambition is to depict it in the universal terms. The literary work of Vladimir Minac is an illustration of mutual interaction between two poles of self-identification mentioned above. Both of the poles condition each other, overlap and reshuffle depending on contemporary cultural and social context. Both aspects are not in an opposite contrary position, they complete each other dialectically. Minac comes with his own version of the 'national history' rooted in the romantic traditions. In his prosaic and essayistic works he often turns his attention to her as she means a refuge for him, his solid wall resistant against the attacks of the outer world. The country appears in many forms ('existential', 'constructional', 'romantic', 'private'), while she also represents a topically-thematic invariant placing over controversy and chaos of the people's world. The text is a part of a monograph of the literary works of V. Minac that is focused on the motif of country in his literary works.